Peter-Wagner-Obituary

Peter Kraft Wagner

Santa Rosa, California

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Peter Wagner was a man of vision and creativity, who worked hard to see his dreams come true. He passed away unexpectedly at 80 years of age in Healdsburg. At the time of his death, he had finished writing the script and lyrics for an original military-themed musical comedy based on Custer's Last...

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Peter (AKA) Honus , I , Forrest Anderson,and Warren Babcock were junior year roomates at Dartmouth. Peter was creative and clever. He acquired a college owned bed frame and spring, built a wooden frame around it, added a matress and made bolsters and cushions making a couch for our living room. Thereafter, the dorm custodian was on the hook for a bed he searched high and low for and never found. (Jack Avril, Cincinnati , Ohio.)

I was just thinking about Peter; telling a friend stories about him. It was a beautiful summer night in July, I was in Shanghai. We had dinner in "Jean Georges" then went upstairs for drinks at "The Whampoa Club", hence the waxing nostalgic about "Wags."
Last time I saw him, he crucified me on a clay court, then we had fish chowder.

As Peter would say:
"He wasn't a good man, he was a great man!"

Calm seas my old friend...

Pete was an enthusiastic dreamer who spawned ideas aplenty. His smile was contagious, and his desire to make a great company even better was genuine.